AQA S2 2007 January — Question 1

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2007
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

1 Alan's journey time, in minutes, to travel home from work each day is known to be normally distributed with mean \(\mu\). Alan records his journey time, in minutes, on a random sample of 8 days as being $$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l } 36 & 38 & 39 & 40 & 50 & 35 & 36 & 42 \end{array}$$ Construct a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for \(\mu\).